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Aug 16 2008
I knew Robert Tilton was good for Something!
This was counterpunch.com’s website of the day.
Warning: Humor a six year old would enjoy! On the other hand, it gets Robert Tilton really, really well!
Aug 15 2008
Paying tax – that’s just for little people! Plus a little bit from Albert Einstein!
First article, and editorial, from Socialist Appeal:
Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress.
Aug 14 2008
Pony Party: Pete Seeger (and friends!)
If you haven’t seen it, run (no…really…run) and get Pete Seeger: The Power of Song. Some people talk of the inspiration of the presumptive Democratic nominee (he sounds like a law professor to me), well, here’s a DVD that should inspire all of us!
Aug 12 2008
Obama and the Middle East
Original article by Uri Avnery, subtitled A Knight on a Gray Horse , via counterpunch.com.
Aug 12 2008
Charging the Victim: Who Should Pay to Rebuild Iraq?
Original article by Ed Kinane via dissidentvoice.org.
Our Congressional Representative James Walsh (R-NY) recently “lashed out at Iraq.” Walsh, now in his tenth term, said Iraq should use its oil windfall sales to repay some of the $48 billion the United States has spent “rebuilding” there.
Now, my representative is Dan Burton (shudder), so my guess is that he’ll be foresquare for this abomination.
Aug 11 2008
In South Ossetia captured American mercenary
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Aug 10 2008
Two really good looks at Obama
The first, Obama’s Letters of No Apology by Paul Street via dissidentvoice.org asks:
Should Barack Obama’s volunteers mail “Letters of No Apology” to survivors of the large number of people killed by U.S. imperial assault in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Aug 09 2008
Antiwar.com’s fundraiser starts Monday!
That’s right, the net’s leading antiwar site is starting their quarterly fundraiser on Monday!
Aug 08 2008
How to win strikes
Original article, a reprinting of a pamphlet by Harry DeBoer, via Socialist Appeal.
Here is Harry’s recollection of a key incident in the wave of strikes. “On July 20, I was called to go to a warehouse because a bunch of cops were going to move a truck. About a thousand policemen were there. Around ten o’clock the captain came up to me and said, “Look, we don’t want a mess here.” I said all you have to do is move your cops away and don’t move any trucks. He checked with his superior and came back: ‘It’s a deal.’ It was a phony deal. At 12:30 the police went back to the warehouse. We went back, too, thousands of pickets, all unarmed. The police surrounded the truck and started moving it. Nine or ten or us in an open-bodied truck moved in front of it to stop them. So help me, police on roofs started shooting from all directions right into the workers. About fifty were injured. I was one of them, pretty near lost my leg. Two strikers got killed. The governor’s investigating committee put it this way: “Police took direct aim at the pickets and fired to kill” and “at no time did pickets attack the police.” Governor Olsen had a perfect right to arrest them for murder. Instead he declared a state of martial law and called out the National Guard. They surrounded the union headquarters and put most of our leadership in the stockade.”
Aug 08 2008
Socialism Made Easy
Original article, a republishing of James Connolly’s collection by this name, via marxist.net.
Aug 07 2008
A new round of nuclear lies
Original article by John Pilger via socialistworker.org and originally published in the Guardian. Subheaded: A look at the “progression of lies” surrounding the August 6, 1945, dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima provides insight into how those lies are being repeated for new wars today.